FAQ

• Questions for the output files: Why are some patterns in "merged_patterns.txt" assigned with strand information such as a negative sign (-)?

"merged_patterns.txt" is processed from "clustered_patterns.txt". "clustered_patterns.txt" curated the observed patterns that are enriched in your provided positive sequences. These observed patterns were next aligned together with each other by requiring the same sequence length. The aligned patterns were then listed in the file, "merged_patterns.txt". Nevertheless, some of the patterns are reverse complementary to the others. For this kind of patterns, negative sign (-) would be annotated to them in "merged_patterns.txt".